Cambium partners with local arborists and municipalities to take fallen trees, which would typically meet an environmentally unfriendly end (dumped in landfills or burned), and upcycle them into carbon-negative construction materials.

The technology is designed by a company called Rain in coordination with Sikorsky, the helicopter manufacturer. The goal is to find new ways to more quickly respond to fires.

It’s no secret that home electrification technologies are beating out fossil-fuel based systems on both cost and performance in many areas of the world. To help understand how residential electrification may play out over the next decade, we will draw lessons from residential solar’s growth, then dive into VoLo Earth Fund I portfolio company Zero Homes.